Word: hebrewism
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...Designed to prevent a difficult settlement if the marriage falls apart quickly, it disappears after a specified term of years, by which point the couple assume they're in it for keeps. Adam first proposed 25 years, but Cindy's lawyer objected. Adam's family suggested 18, because the Hebrew number 18, chai, means "life." "I just don't think about it," says Cindy. "I believe if you both give it 100% and just cherish it, you can work out your problems...
...accompanied my dad to synagogue while my mom stayed home making matzo-ball soup, brisket and kasha. At services I sometimes crept from the auditorium and found a game room, where I played pinball like an uptight burglar, braced against discovery. I had a Bar Mitzvah and recited the Hebrew words of my service from memory without comprehending them, but my Little League game later that day still sticks in my memory better than my supposed passage into manhood...
...though, Latin, Greek and Hebrew were familiar languages to the audience. Then, graduates used the orations to showcase speaking skills before influential elders who could give them jobs. Forget about interviews--it was prowess in Latin conjugation that counted...
...Harvard moved away from its beginnings as a Christian seminary, Greek and Hebrew, which with Latin were necessary to study scripture, lost their importance. The Greek and Hebrew orations disappeared somewhere along...
Lumelsky read the English translation to Jewish sources she had selected with Joshua S. Goodman '00, who read the passages in Hebrew...